I was thinking something not-disimilar when I read this story, where people who choose not to live their entire lives in line with maximal materialism are criticised because this means they don't pay enough tax. Whatever else you might think about whether or not we have an obligation to contribute to things via taxation, to see someone (or yourself) as just a means to an economic end strikes me as pretty dehumanising.
Agreed. The only way to change the system is to stop perpetuating it.
@clayboyn I actually connect with you there. The people closest to us can be the one to put the greatest resistance on our paths and thickest doubts in our heart if we are not strong enough to continue on our journey of what we hold as right for us knowing that at the end of the day we suffer the consequences alone. I have experienced this many times firsthand.
On two separate occassions, i have seen family members that i love so much sit me down, twice I have almost lost my girlfriends (encouraged by their mum) because I decided to be a ghostwriter (working from home) instead of getting a job. They just couldn't wrap their head around having me sit down inside the whole day (from an office i made out of my rented apartment) and make money. To them i am lazy, unconventional, unadventurous, stupid, and unambitious.
When i quiz about ambition, it is all wrapped around getting a "dignified" job and that isn't that while i was sent to school and i hold a BSc in Engineering?
Before my fiancee's parents, i was always asked at any point of meeting them, "what's that your thing about again?" And i know it isn't that they do not remember but only to taunt.
Well, Four years plus now i have been on that lane. I am happy, made many's people dreams of becoming authors come true. I have stuck my head out and it is getting better everyday.
Thanks @clayboyn for this.
That's awesome to hear!
Hi @clayboyn do you online in discord? I hhave one question from you